gerrymander

On Monday the Court stopped a racial gerrymander in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

Opponents of the retaliatory gerrymander include former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025

Ultimately, of course, even if California adopts a principled, automated redistricting system, Texas may gerrymander anyway.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

For his part, Graves said he never believed his map was an illegal racial gerrymander, as Garcia’s lawsuit asserts.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

The "gerrymander": what is it, and has it been used in your state?

From Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur William Dunn

But eliminating racial gerrymanders has made some districts in both states more competitive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The current gerrymander suit was filed long after Earls left the social justice coalition, but while there, she worked on challenges to the state’s gerrymanders with a lawyer in the current case, Allison Riggs.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice is holding dozens of seminars across eight states that include how to identify gerrymanders using mapping software, said Jeff Loperfido, the group's senior counsel.

From Reuters ● Aug. 13, 2021

The group has also joined lawsuits claiming racial gerrymanders of House districts in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, and is mounting grass-roots efforts to enact electoral reforms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2018

A striking instance of this is furnished by the power to nullify legislative gerrymanders.

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

He has gerrymandered the boundaries of confidentiality to sidestep established ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

The Reichstag, or national parliament, was grossly gerrymandered in favor of the upper classes, and the government was not responsible to its lawmakers, but rather to a capricious monarch.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

Former Representative Reid Ribble, a Republican who served northeastern Wisconsin, said, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandered House or State Assembly seats, and there’s some truth to that.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

In the meantime, jurors should remember that they each have the independent power to cast a vote that cannot be overridden, overruled, or gerrymandered away.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2022

Professor Commons states that whenever the periodical rearrangement of constituencies takes place the boundaries are "gerrymandered."

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by John H. Humphreys

Consider Utah, whose state Supreme Court has faithfully enforced a voter-approved gerrymandering ban.

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

But here’s the confusing part about the Rucho court’s legal treatment of gerrymandering.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026

Speaking with a local radio show, he said “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026

Until that happens, the constitutional rules against legislative gerrymandering remain in force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

This trick is called "gerrymandering," from Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, who was vice-president of the United States from 1813 to 1817.

From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by John Fiske